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Fabulous Friday: Steve and Eydie
Did you see the recent PBS special on Steve and Eydie? Wow, they are priceless. Here they are doing one of my favorite songs of theirs,...
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Dec 8, 20231 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Dec 6, 2023
The Best Supporting Actress winner for 2001 was Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind. I didn't like that movie at the time and suspect I...
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Dec 6, 20231 min read
Fabulous Friday: Siskel and Ebert
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
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Dec 1, 20231 min read
CDA: Del Tredici, Kissinger, Sternhagen
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer...
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Nov 30, 20232 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Nov 29, 2023
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so...
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Nov 29, 20231 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Nov 22, 2023
The Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 1998 went to Bill Condon for Gods and Monsters, a quiet and thought-provoking movie about James...
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Nov 22, 20231 min read
CDA: Rosalynn Carter
This one made me sad. The Carters were the first Presidential couple who I really connected with - - I admired their sincerity and...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
Fabulous Friday: Agnes Moorehead interview
I brought up YouTube looking for something to post and this was right there on the home page!
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Nov 17, 20231 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Nov 15, 2023
My apologies that this is a day late! The Oscars for 1997 were dominated by Titanic but I'm bypassing that boat and focussing on a...
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Nov 16, 20231 min read
Fabulous Friday: "I Wanna Be Around"
For no particular reason, today I'm giving you one of my very favorite things on YouTube, Eydie Gormé singing "I Wanna Be Around." The...
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Nov 10, 20232 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Nov 8, 2023
We had a classic diva/mensch face-off in the Best Actress category in 1996. Kristin Scott Thomas was nominated for *The English Patient,*...
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Nov 8, 20231 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Nov 1, 2023
The Oscars for 1995 had one of my favorite face-offs. The Best Picture winner was a bloated, self-important historical epic, total Best...
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Nov 1, 20231 min read
CDA: Matthew Perry
This one caught me by surprise, as I'm sure it did many of you. He was 54 and anyone who dies and is younger than ME, that is too young!...
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Oct 30, 20231 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Nacht und Träume"
One of Schubert's most beautiful songs. Here's Gerald Moore and his plummy English accent introducing and then playing the piano - - and...
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Oct 27, 20231 min read
CDA: Jorden, Lutvak, and Roundtree
My friend Scott alerted me to the death of James Jorden, the creator of the Parterre opera queen zine, which morphed into parterre.com....
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Oct 26, 20232 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Oct 25, 2023
The Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for 1994 went to Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary for *Pulp Fiction,* a cocky, ambitious,...
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Oct 25, 20231 min read
CDA: Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie died the other day at the age of 91. She'll always have a special place in my heart for her thrilling, over-the-top...
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Oct 22, 20231 min read
Fabulous Friday and CDA: Suzanne Somers
I've been meaning to post about this all week and am only getting around to it today. Suzanne Somers died the other day at the age of 76....
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Oct 20, 20231 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Oct 18, 2023
The 1993 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress was little Anna Paquin for her scene-stealing role in *The Piano.* Winona Ryder was...
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Oct 18, 20231 min read
Fabulous Friday: "How Am I To Know?"
Do you know this song? I first heard it in this recording by Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey band. Dorsey has such a smooth, luscious...
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Oct 13, 20231 min read
CDA x 4: Barrie and Stewart
I never like reporting on FOUR celebrity deaths! My brother Howard alerted me to three of them and my friend Jessica on the fourth: Barbara Barrie (95), Donnie Iris (83), and Patrick Stewart (86) from Howard and Elke Sommer (85) from Jessica. I first encountered Barbara Barrie playing Dennis Christopher's mom in Breaking Away. She was nominated for an Oscar for that movie. I later knew her from the original cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Company, in which she and her hu
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16 hours ago3 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Then Came You"
I was on the stairmaster at Planet Fitness yesterday morning - - it wasn't an actual Stairmaster, it was a LifeFitness brand knockoff, but it's the easiest way to explain the thing I was using. Don't you say Kleenex rather than "facial tissue?" Anyway, I was on the stairmaster looking for something inspiring to listen to on my iPod. I needed a break from my usual picks (Boston, Earth Wind and Fire, Shirley Bassey) and somehow landed on this song. Which I ADORE. The four minut
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2 days ago1 min read
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